entertainment - "movies"

The war on terror goes to pot in "Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo." Maybe it's just as well. Hollywood has tried high dudgeon and scowling outrage with movies like "Rendition," and the phones at Fandango weren't exactly ringing off the hook.

Poker is a social game. If you don't think so, just watch some old western movies. Most likely you will see cowboys and gunslingers seated around a poker table, in the local saloon. Camaraderie was an integral part of the poker game, just as much as the cards were. Today it is still a social game, which is evident by poker rooms all over the world being busier than ever. Not to mention all the home poker games going on, where friends and family gather to engage in friendly banter at the kitchen table. read more in pokerworks.com

Mexican-born filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is named as the director of the planned Lord of the Rings prequels.

This is it. Last weekend before the summer movie season hits, so dig the vajayjay jokes, cannabis cracks and Shannon Elizabeth poker flicks movies while they last. Here's what's opening,...

'Deal' is the latest card-tournament drama to suggest that the movies ought to find a more compelling sport, although it's more fun to watch the poker in this movie than the face of its star. Burt Reynolds's eyes, nose, and mouth are all where they were in his swaggering prime, but from certain distances, the surface beneath the features is ...

I feel bad complaining about the current fertility trend in movies, since if I weren't watching women wrestle with pregnancy, I would barely be able to watch them in comedies at all. The genre has been colonized by men who grant women the ability to deliver a baby but rarely a joke. So on these grounds alone 'Baby Mama' is ...

I feel bad complaining about the current fertility trend in movies, since if I weren't watching women wrestle with pregnancy, I would barely be able to watch them in comedies at all. The genre has been colonized by men who grant women the ability to deliver a baby but rarely a joke. So on these grounds alone 'Baby Mama' is ...

I don’t know who is managing Hilary Swank’s career, but aside from all the hardware she’s brought home through her movies, the woman has gone through just a simply amazing transformation. It started with a couple of bra and panties shoot, a new hairstylist, and are those better teeth? Whatever she’s doing, it’s definitely working. [...]

The term 'chick flick' generally refers to sappy, simplistic and altogether missable movies. So we won't saddle the amusing and ...

RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE)The Life Before Her Eyes: Drama. Starring Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood. Directed by Vadim Perelman. (R. 90 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Most movies contract on reflection, but 'The Life Before Her Eyes' expands and keeps...